Driving on Water

sati — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:33:26 -0700

Blooming Cycle

Morgan Maher — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:15:37 -0700

Inspired by tufts of dandelion carried by the wind to disperse seedlings, Matthew Boyko and Christina Ng of Society Creative LLC created Bloom, a device that attaches to a bicycle and releases floating seed-bubbles as you roll through the streets.

Vegetable based soap and seeds combine together to make a dissolving "nugget" which is stored in a resevoir.

Radical Interdependence and Online Telepathy: How Twitter Helps Us Find One Another

Jennifer Palmer — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:37:16 -0700

The Opposite Machine on parade in New Orleans.

Driving on Compressed Air

William McGillis — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:59:29 -0700

Horse-Powered Buggy

Kal Cobalt — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:45:25 -0700

"My friends and relatives thought of me as a somewhat eccentric half-mad inventor attempting the impossible," says Abdolhadi Mirhejazi, the Iranian engineer who invented the Naturmobil.

Open Source Explosion

Bill Machon — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:06:14 -0700

Gas Be Gone

Morgan Maher — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:29:31 -0700

The No more Gas (NmG) personal electric vehicle from Myers Motors can reach up to 75mph, goes 1000 miles on $20 of electrical fuel and is available in 14 different colors.

The vehicle plugs into any 110 volt, 20 amp outlet and takes up to eight hours to fully charge. Currently, the NmG can go 30 miles on one charge and is geared towards urban commuters, many of whom commute less than 12 miles each day. Often with an eight-hour workday in between drives.

Particle Accelerators and Parallel Universes

Tristan Gulliford — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:52:22 -0700

Universal Translator Proposed

Bill Machon — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:09:48 -0700

A Tangled Web Of Addiction

Bill Machon — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:18:03 -0700

Thinking Out Loud

Morgan Maher — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:40:32 -0700

Using a wearable device called The Audeo, a person sends nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by a neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerised voice.

Michael Callahan, co-founder of Ambient and one of the developers of The Audeo, says effective use of the device requires "a level above thinking" and careful training.

Could Science and Art Become One and the Same?

Greg Wendt — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:30:19 -0700

"He to whom Nature begins to reveal her open secret will feel an irresistible yearning for her most worthy interpreter, Art." - Goethe

Science aims to help us gain an understanding of reality, yet how can that which is dictated by the laws of logic be used to explain the parts of reality that are non-logical?

Artificial Evolution

Kal Cobalt — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:54:26 -0700

Robotics pioneer Hans Moravec has made some bold statements and predictions about the current state and future of artificial intelligence.

Metagenomics: Accessing the Aliens Inside Us

Sam Michael — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:39:05 -0700

Open Lab

sati — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:23:22 -0700

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be having an open house on May 3rd and 4th from 9-5. The event will highlight past accomplishments made by the JPL. There will be exhibits and demonstrations about the Laboratory’s research on space technologies. Come prepared with an open mind and questions, for there will be many of the Laboratory’s scientists and engineers on hand.

Extreme Solar

Bill Machon — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:34:05 -0700

Popular tech blogger Jason Kottke has written up a great summary of solar furnaces. Solar furnaces use curved mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight to a focal point that can reach extreme temperatures. Practical benefits include generating electricty, creating hydrogen fuel, and melting steel.

Warming Up to Superconductivity

sati — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:24:32 -0700

Portal into the Mind

sati — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:42:08 -0700

Have you ever found yourself in the frustrating position of explaining the details of a fleeting dream to a friend? Is it difficult to express the colours, lights, sounds, and feelings that you alone experienced in those moments while slumbering?

Google Is God?

Tristan Gulliford — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:31:38 -0700

A group called The Church of Google is claiming that the most popular Internet search engine site, Google.com, is extensive and far-reaching enough that it may be compared to the traditional view of “God” as an omniscient

Holographic Messages

Tristan Gulliford — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:15:22 -0800

Power Pacing

Kal Cobalt — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:57:53 -0800

Researchers collaborating in British Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan have created a device which generates energy by assisting deceleration of the leg during a normal walking stride. The technique is similar to that used in some hybrid cars, which generate electricity through braking.

The current prototype device can produce enough power in one minute to run a cell phone for ten minutes straight.

Mind Over Computer

Kal Cobalt — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:59:04 -0800

"We've created a brain computer interface that reads electrical impulses in the brain and translates them into commands that a video game can accept and control the game dynamically," says Emotiv president Tan Le.

Virtual Reality and Hallucination

Diana Reed Slattery — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:54:27 -0800

ABSTRACT

Two Seat Solar Car

Morgan Maher — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:06:37 -0800

This lightweight, high strength solar powered car made of Nomex honeycomb, a material widely used in aircraft and aerospace components, would need only a few hours of sunlight to power the car for three hours, travelling up to 70km/h.

Military Minefields

Daniel Pinchbeck — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:36:54 -0800

This essay originally appeared in Conscious Choice Magazine.

Unwinding the Cosmos

Richard Merrick — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:30:05 -0800

At present there is a great deal of interest (and confusion) around a new field of science generally referred to as torsion physics. The Einstein-Cartan theory upon which it is based describes magnetism and gravity as two sides of the same coin – the curvature and twisting of spacetime. It may well give us the missing link needed to solve the world's energy and ecological crises while offering the ultimate "Theory of Everything."

Can Microbes Make Hydrogen?

Adam Elenbaas — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:15:36 -0800

In the search for more efficient energy resources, an old enemy has become a potential new friend. For millions of years, microbes buried underneath layers of river sediment have been feasting off of the rich hydrocarbons present in oil. As a result, a large supply of petroleum was contaminated by these microbes. But now researchers have discovered that the microbes actually converted the petroleum into methane, a cleaner fossil fuel.

The Transported Man: Phantasmagoria, Tesla and Magic

Antonio Lopez — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:17:04 -0800

Recognizing that something fundamentally had shifted in the consciousness of those residing within the technological medisaphere, Marshal McLuhan observed that we had passed a "break barrier": "Just before an airplane breaks the sound barrier, sound waves become visible on the wings of the plane.

Digital Dialogue

Adam Elenbaas — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:21:50 -0800

A new advance in video-gaming will feature interactive dialogue commands for characters. Science fiction? Nope. The evolving face of virtual reality.

Reality 2.0

Antonio Lopez — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:57:51 -0700